by Steven Ertelt
Joe Biden is slamming a pro-life senator who is blocking over 200 military nominees because of the Pentagon’s new illegal policy funding abortions.
Senator Tommy Tuberville continues to stand strong against the Pentagon’s illegal abortion funding — to the chagrin of pro-abortion Democrats who want him to give up his fight to protect babies and support pro-life Americans.
The new Department of Defense policy requires taxpayers to pay travel costs and paid time off for military service members and their families to abort their unborn babies. As a result, Republicans estimate approximately 4,100 more unborn babies will be killed in abortions every year — and partly on the taxpayer dime.
But opposing taxpayer-funded abortions, a stance that most Americans have taken for decades, is “bizarre” to Joe Biden. And he slammed Tuberville for holding up the nominations until the pro-abortion policy is changed.
Biden said during a fundraising event for affluent donors in California’s Silicon Valley, “It’s just bizarre. I don’t remember it happening before, and I’ve been around.”
Earlier on Monday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuberville’s hold is “hurting our national security.”
“It is dangerous what is he, what he’s doing, and it is unacceptable,” she said. “We’ve been very, very clear about this. It is important to move forward with the president’s DoD nominations as they relate to our national security, as it relates to military safety, as it relates to what we need to make sure we’re providing for our military force.”
But the fault of the holdup is on the Pentagon and the Biden administration. Tuberville will immediately release the hold on the nominations as soon as the abortion funding policy is withdrawn. Or the Senate could vote one at a time on the most important nominations — but for months Democrats have chosen not to vote on any nominees and the Biden administration refuses to withdraw the illegal policy.
To resolve the impasse, the Biden administration has offered a committee vote on a bill to overturn the Pentagon’s abortion funding policy in exchange for his commitment to allow votes on its nominees. But Tuberville is not taking the bait because he knows that the bill will likely be defeated in a Democrat-controlled committee, and would likely be filibustered by Democrats on the floor and will never become law. Thus, he would give up his leverage for nothing in return.
Tuberville said the Biden administration and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are the ones to blame for putting their pro-abortion politics ahead of military promotions.
“This is about a tyrannical executive branch walking all over the United States Senate and doing our jobs,” he said. “This was Secretary Austin’s choice. [He] thought abortion is more important than his highest-level military nominations.”